{"id":128680,"date":"2021-10-08T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/merck-sells-federally-financed-covid-pill-to-u-s-for-40-times-what-it-costs-to-make"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:22:17","slug":"merck-sells-federally-financed-covid-pill-to-u-s-for-40-times-what-it-costs-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/merck-sells-federally-financed-covid-pill-to-u-s-for-40-times-what-it-costs-to-make","title":{"rendered":"Merck Sells Federally Financed Covid Pill to U.S. for 40 Times What It Costs to Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/merck-sells-federally-financed-covid-pill-to-u-s-for-40-times-what-it-costs-to-make3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A FIVE-DAY COURSE of molnupiravir, the new medicine being hailed as a \u201chuge advance\u201d in the treatment of Covid-19, costs $17.74 to produce, according to a report (pdf) issued last week by drug pricing experts at the Harvard School of Public Health and King\u2019s College Hospital in London. Merck is charging the U.S. government $712 for the same amount of medicine, or 40 times the price. (taxpayer funded mind you) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Covid-19 treatment molnupiravir was developed using funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FIVE-DAY COURSE of molnupiravir, the new medicine being hailed as a \u201chuge advance\u201d in the treatment of Covid-19, costs $17.74 to produce, according to a report (pdf) issued last week by drug pricing experts at the Harvard School of Public Health and King\u2019s College Hospital in London. Merck is charging the U.S. government $712 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}